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Determining if an adverse event occurred
When it comes time to assign a harm category to your adverse event report, sometimes it can be difficult to get over the hurdle of answering the first question: “Did an actual adverse event occur?”
The definition of “adverse event” varies among healthcare facilities and is often influenced by organizational or regulatory policies. Oregon’s Patient Safety Reporting Program defines adverse event as “an event resulting in unintended harm or creating the potential for harm that is related to any aspect of a patient’s care (by an act of commission or omission) rather than to the underlying disease or condition of the patient; adverse events may or may not be preventable.”
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